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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your report raised disturbing questions: Why were the Project Safehaven documents ever classified by the U.S. government? Why did they remain classified? Who in the U.S. knew how much money was really involved? Who made money besides the "gnomes of Zurich"? ARTHUR S. TISCHLER Newton, Massachusetts

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 17, 1997 | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...assessment was like Barnevik himself: analytical, quick, blunt and, above all, global. As chairman of ABB Asea Brown Boveri, the world's largest electrical-engineering group, Barnevik, 57, presides over a $36 billion federation of more than 1,000 companies with 217,000 employees in 140 countries. Zurich-based ABB is the biggest single investor in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, a Western pioneer in India and an aggressive player in East Asia and Latin America. For three years running it was voted "Europe's most respected company" in a poll of executives by the Financial Times newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERCY BARNEVIK: CHAIRMAN, ABB ASEA BROWN BOVERI; ZURICH | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...Amato much moved by critics like Rolf Bloch, the main spokesman for Switzerland's 18,000 Jews. "We are Jews in a Swiss way," says Bloch. "We don't want to blame all the Swiss or put them under assault." A Jewish lawyer in Zurich representing 20 people seeking information on wartime accounts considers D'Amato's and Bronfman's tactics counterproductive. "So aggressive, so hostile," he says. "This banging on the head is wrong, and it has provoked reaction. Now we are seeing signs of anti-Semitism in Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECHOES OF THE HOLOCAUST | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

Number 45 Bahnhofstrasse is an imposing building in central Zurich. Its monumental columns are topped by the sculpted heads of a peasant patriot, a mother, the god Mercury and William Tell, the mythic Swiss hero. This secular temple is the main branch of the Union Bank of Switzerland. Inside, there are acres of reddish brown Tessin marble. The ornate overhead moldings frame a 20-ft. by 30-ft. skylight. A uniformed guard approaches: "Who are you? What are you doing? Identification papers, please." Is this brusque aggressiveness necessary? "I am only following orders," he says in German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: A PAINFUL HISTORY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...most damaging blow to Swiss credibility came on the night of Jan. 9. During regular rounds at the main Union Bank of Switzerland office in Zurich, security guard Christoph Meili, 29, peeked into the shredding room. There he saw two carts full of documents waiting to be destroyed. Meili noticed that some of them concerned dealings with Germany during the 1940s, including sales of confiscated properties. All of them were protected by recent Swiss regulations forbidding the destruction of any documents that might help clarify Switzerland's wartime banking role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: A PAINFUL HISTORY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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